Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes

Americana

Once in a blue Tasman moon, the damp, limey backstreets of Melbourne produce a songsmith of singular integrity and vision; an artist who is readily able to articulate, in profoundest detail, our most familiar concerns – be they personal, generational, or universal. Paul Kelly, Nick Cave, Archie Roach – each emerged, fully formed, from the fertile proving ground of the Victorian capital. Standing alongside them in the slow-turning screws of Northcote rain is Lachlan Bryan – attended, as ever, by long-time companions The Wildes.

Since emerging in 2009 as the songwriting force behind The Wildes’ much-lauded debut Ballad of a Young Married Man, Lachlan Bryan has been a consistently compelling presence on the local alt. country-Americana landscape. Much-admired 2012 solo debut Shadow of the Gun was an album of striking immediacy and pathos, cementing Lachlan’s reputation as one of the world’s premier alt country writers.

The Golden Guitar nominated album The Mountain built on the tearaway success Black Coffee (2013) which saw Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes take out Best Alternative Country Album at the 2014 Country Music Awards, The Age Music Award for Best Country Album and the band, Best Group at The Australian Independent Country Music Awards